Cisco has announced that Carbon emissions will be tracked in the Webex Control Hub, which provides actionable actionable insights to help companies meet their sustainability goals. It is the first of its kind to provide Scope 2 releases and recommendations for optimizing power consumption and utilization of Cisco Webex devices. This is part of Cisco’s broader sustainability commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, and to continue to innovate with sustainability as a priority.
According to Gartner, CEOs ranked environmental sustainability among their top 10 career strategies for the first time in a year. Of the 80% of CEOs who intend to invest in new or improved products in 2022 and 2023, environmental sustainability was cited as the third most important driver, after only functionality and higher quality. Sustainability also appears to be a key differentiator for CEOs; In fact, I recognized the ranks of sustainability as a reliable brand among them.
“At Cisco, we aim to help create a more sustainable and positive impact around the world,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco. “Helping our customers achieve their environmental, sustainability and governance goals is critical to our mission of designing products and solutions with circular principles in mind, and we are the only company that offers such a feature.”
Tracking carbon emissions in Webex Control Hub enables companies to:
Carbon Emissions Insights will be available in the Webex Control Hub and by default for IT administrators. This data can also be exported via the API for the integration of customer support reporting tools.
Cisco’s goal is for 100% of new Cisco products and packaging to incorporate Circular Design Principles by 2025, in which Cisco devices play an important role. One example of our commitment to circular design is the Cisco Room Bar, which last year went on sale with 100% recyclable packaging material to eliminate up to 165,000 pounds (74,842 kilos) of packaging materials per year. In addition, the Cisco IP Phone 8800 series models are made from 100% they will have post-consumer resin recycling (PCR), helping to avoid the use of more than 3 million pounds (more than 1.3 million kg) of virgin plastic per year.
Cisco invites its customers, partners and employees to participate in its Takeback and Reuse program, in which 99.9% of Cisco’s recycled hardware is returned and recycled at the end of its useful life.
